My initial impressions of Bath on arrival was that it looked rather like Ground Zero and not that nice at all. Luckily there were stewards from URB to show the way to the bright orange buses that would take us to the campus and oh my, it was quite a labyrinth.
I met up with the rest of the people from Smoke in the Elements bar which we would later return to that night for some of the drunken activities that would take place.
The afternoon's seminar's included one called "Radio Is Your Oyster" which was lead by three figures from the radio industry including Bauer's (Emap) Mark Story who used to help produce the Simon Mayo breakfast show on Radio 1 many years ago. The seminar basically looked at the creativity involved in radio and different ways of promotion such as this rather clever video from Alex Zane at XFM.
We also had a talk about the music industry and how to get your stuff well known through the maze of pluggers, publishers, and lawyers which was rather interesting.
The evening was spent at two of the bars on campus and and having a good old boogie the same way as any Monday night. It took quite a while to get back however because of Chilvers, Pete and Stewart messing about on the grass near the coach station and near scaffolding.
My overall impressions so far are that the seminars have been pretty good but I'm still feeling rather left out at times and am finding it hard to blend in with many of those who are with us from the first year. Then again ridiculous in-jokes never have been something I've taken kindly to but it would nice to be acknowledged, even a simple "hello" would be polite.
Hopefully today's rather large amount of sessions and "Demo Idol" will see enjoyment overall.
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